President Of Croatia Supports Biden’s Communist Revolution (?) In Disguise

Zoran Milanovic President of Croatia

While the world’s eyes kept themselves fixed upon the rocky American Presidential elections and its results at the same time the world had, from where I stood, experienced some of the most vicious and unprecedented attacks and insults on many who publicly expressed support for Donald Trump.  Would one be wrong in saying that, on balance of evidence, mostly pro-communists dressed up as liberals are capable of such hatred and disrespect of democracy in its inherent right given to all people to choose the politicians they admire without the fear of retribution or attacks. The Croatian President Zoran Milanovic went as far as saying that he cannot comprehend why any Croatian could support Donald Trump with Joe Biden being the alternative. He said in an interview on 9 November 2020: “That a Croat with Biden (around) can be for Trump. I can’t figure that out. And especially not from those who are declared believers and people of piety…”

Well, first of all, of course Milanovic cannot figure out why Croats would go for a patriot because he is not one except by name, nor has he ever been. When Croatia went on its way to secede from communist Yugoslavia in 1990 Milanovic was a die-hard communist who belonged to the League of Communists of Croatia who did not want an independent Croatia, a democratic Croatia – any Croatia away from communist Yugoslavia. He did not fight to defend Croatia and its Croatian people when the Yugoslav army and Serbs waged a bloody aggression against Croatia to try and stop it from becoming independent. Of course he cannot “figure out” why majority of Croatian patriots support Trump rather than Biden. His mindset is still in communist Yugoslavia.

Of course Milanovic cannot “figure out” why declared believers and people of piety would support Trump because he has never been a believer; he was a member of the Communist party that forbade its members to attend church or declare themselves as believers, or indeed, to believe. As to people of piety, Milanovic would not know what piety is if it hit him in the head. From time to time he will express some dose of emotion that reminds of piety or regret towards victims of communist or Serb bloody rampage against Croatians in the 1990’s but that fools nobody – his actions and the consistency of them only point to a lack of piety and respect for Croatian victims of Serb aggression.

Milanovic goes on with a dribble saying that Biden did a great deal for Croatia during the Croatian Homeland War but apart from hot air releases in the US Senate and a couple of finger pointing sessions against Serbs and Slobodan Milosevic as aggressors against Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina Biden did nothing, absolutely nothing to actually stop the genocidal madness of Serbia against Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1999 Biden voted for a resolution that paved the way for a non-binding resolution to authorise military air operations (under NATO) against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)! But he did not move a finger in similar direction between 1991 and 1998 which were the war years and years of Serbia’s occupation of parts of Croatia during which tens of thousands of Croats were slaughtered, tortured, raped, ethnically cleansed by the hand of Serbia. So please, president Milanovic, don’t talk to me about Biden’s help to Croatia. It simply did not exist. But bombing of Serbia helped Serbia to continue whinging to the world what a victim it is while slaughtering its neighbours! 

Of course Milanovic supports Biden! After all, with Biden’s presidency the communist regimes will get a new lease of life of recognition or status. A new kind of communist revolution is unfolding before our very eyes and once Biden is sworn in as President of US just follow closely if you have the guts.

Although Biden’s background doesn’t clearly point out that he is a socialist (or communist dressed up as socialist) himself, a widespread concern of many is that his election means the ascendancy of Bernie Sanders or his close pals, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other self-proclaimed democratic socialists within the Democratic Party, various Obama socialist stalwarts as well as the potential for the Democratic Party to embrace and push for socialist policies in the United States that we have seen fail elsewhere and, hence, take a lead in a wider communist revolution dressed up as socialist democracy or similar.

In his election campaign Biden never unequivocally and openly rejected either socialism, the members of his party promoting it or even members of his partly that openly sympathised with brutal socialist or communist dictators. It is known that Biden was at one point considering California’s Karen Bass, for the vice-presidential spot, despite her abundant history as an open Fidel Castro sympathiser; his eventually picked Kamala Harris who has a very liberal or leftist voting record in the US Senate! Then, Biden chooses Anthony Blinken as his Secretary of State! Wow, the transparency to a communist revolution gets “better”. Blinken a graduate of Marxist nest in the US – Harvard University – who supported the invasion of Iraq, the invasion of Afghanistan, the war against Syria, the intervention in Lybia with the consequent torture and death of US diplomat Christopher Stevens, and the elimination of Kurds. All this in the pursuit of human rights, democracy and peace. I can’t wait to see what Biden’s administration has up its sleeves to achieve not Trump’s “America First” but its “America Together”. One wonders how they plan to overcome the hurdle that some 74 million voters for Trump may present to them. They perhaps may not care and that should be seen as a huge corridor of hope for America First, eventually.    

Defeating Trump required Biden to build a broad coalition among the left — including, apparently and explicitly, socialists and communists. Indications so far point to a very likely scenario that Biden will promote the socialist ideological Democratic party and Obama stalwart compatriots to senior positions into his administration and show that the time of the anti-socialist consensus has come to an end in America.

China’s President Xi Jinping wasted little time to congratulate Biden on his win even though the US Electoral College had not delivered its votes that confirm a president and in doing so he made a point of saying how under Biden relations between the US and China are set to be a “win-win cooperation”! Many younger people in the US and elsewhere in Western democracies praised this expression of approval of Biden by China, but, they were not educated to know what evil communist regimes have brought to the world slaughtering more than tenfold (China alone fivefold) of innocent people than what Hitler’s Germany did in WWII! Will Biden’s presidency also mean a continuance of blindness for justice of victims of communist crimes!?

To aid this unfolding communist revolution dressed up as liberal democracy or socialist democracy, the EU Commission and the EU Parliament, including Germany’s Angela Merkel, are falling over themselves in the race to express their utter joy for Biden’s reign. Given Brexit and Trump’s leanings towards Britain rather than EU, their gushing towards Biden is somewhat logical but only for the vengeful and the EU institutions are full of leftist vengeful deplorables. UN’s communist, sorry socialist dressed up as socialist democrat, António Guterres, with his comrade dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of WHO are likewise rubbing their hands in joy at Biden’s taking over the White House while tripping over their own feet from sheer thrill of globalists’ success.

Under Biden’s administration the sweat shops in China that stole US and other Western countries’ manufacturing for profits of the Western rich individuals are set to continue. Of course Trump’s tariffs on products made in China or the banning of Huawei or Tik Tok were not popular with China and US left wing; not popular with everyone who does not want their own country to get back on its feet and revitalise its lost manufacturing to China’s sweatshops.  

With Biden’s and Obama’s stalwarts and cronies slowly filling in the White House in Washington we know that big business and some countries outside the USA will achieve even bigger harvests than ever before. But not to benefit ordinary people, voters or small countries. They will soon feel the brunt of Biden’s lead and become even bigger slaves and beggars for bread than ever before. China seems intent on absorbing the world and the greedy Western businesses over the past three or four decades who moved production to China for bigger personal profits are to blame for that.

Poland and Hungary are about the only EU countries that have come out strongly in support of Trump. That of course is in keeping in line with their anti-communist and pro-democracy, pro patriotic official stands.  

Official Croatia stood behind Biden and that is a sure marker for things to get even worse in Croatia – communist/socialist ideology will become an even bigger master of people struggling to survive than it was during times of former Yugoslavia. Unless, of course, the people refuse to give this communist mindset any oxygen like Poland and Hungary have. Ina Vukic

Investment in Croatian Gas Could Bolster American Security

Tomislav Karamarko (L)
James Jay Carafano (R)
Photo: Croatian Institute for Security & Prosperity

By: Tomislav Karamarko and James Jay Carafano

Europe is hooked on Russian energy. Last year, the European Union (EU) relied on Russia for 34 percent of its gas imports —up significantly from 2015. European nations like Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Serbia and Slovakia—remain dependent on Russia for more than 60 percent of their natural-gas imports.

What is more, Russia has no qualms about using energy as a trump card, cutting gas supplies to get its way in political disputes. For example, Moscow stopped supplying natural gas to Ukraine in 2006, 2009, 2014 and 2015, as that nation struggled to align itself with the West. Russia also cut back its cut back its natural-gas exports to Austria, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia in 2014 when these countries supported Ukraine.

Europe’s energy dependence on Russia is not in line with the interests of Europe and the United States. Decline of European gas production with no turnaround in sight speaks for itself. Last year, for example, the government statistics office in the Netherlands reported that 80 percent of the country’s natural-gas reserves were gone.

Still, there is a way to make Europe more energy independent with the help of American energy exports and the construction of new import facilities in Europe. One potential new entry point for American liquefied natural gas (LNG) is Croatia’s Krk Island. A planned LNG import facility there would initially accommodate delivery of two billion cubic meters of gas a year.

Krk Island’s strategic location would allow for LNG distribution both west (into countries like Italy and France) and south into other Balkan nations. That promising location is one reason why the terminal project has already secured over €100 million in funding from the EU.

The terminal project would let Croatia work with its closest ally—the United States—to forge a deeper energy partnership. Together, the facilities and the partnership would enhance both nations’ security and prosperity for decades to come.

All signs are positive. President Trump endorsed the project during his recent meeting with leaders from the Central and East European region. President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic voiced support in response.

President Trump’s statement that “the United States will never use energy to coerce your nations, and we cannot allow others to do so,” is key to understanding the importance of this project to Croatia, the EU and the United States.

The Krk Island terminal would join Lithuania’s Klaipėda terminal and Poland’s Świnoujście terminal as critical gateways for American LNG imports. And these three facilities can help ease the pressure of the Kremlin on Europe.

So it doesn’t come as a surprise that Russia is lobbying for completion of a different energy project: the Nord Stream II pipeline under the Baltic Sea, which would connect Russia with Germany. However, that project is neither economically necessary nor geopolitically prudent.

As European nations reinvest in security, a comprehensive approach demands developing alternatives to Russian energy. The timing could not be better. For the first time in decades, America is becoming a net exporter of energy. Increasing U.S. energy exports to Europe will bind the Atlantic alliance closer, enhance energy security and create jobs and economic growth on both sides of the Atlantic.

An LNG terminal on Krk Island would do far more than create tremendous economic opportunity for Croatia and the United States. It could exert outsized influence on behalf of energy security and stability throughout the region.
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Tomislav Karamarko is founder and chairman of the Croatian Institute for Security and Prosperity. James Jay Carafano is a Heritage Foundation vice president, in charge of the think tank’s research program on issues of national security and foreign relations.

 

Fare Well – Three Seas Initiative

Three Seas Initiative Summit 2017
Photo: screenshot

US President Donald Trump attended the 2017 summit of the Three Seas Initiative in Poland on Thursday 6 July, which is hoped to boost economic ties between the United States and the ex-communist countries of central and Eastern Europe.

The Three Seas Initiative is a joint Polish-Croatian project, launched in 2016, with the aim of strengthening trade, infrastructure, energy and political co-operation among countries bordering the Adriatic, the Baltic and the Black Sea.

The following 12 countries are part of the initiative: Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Croatia, Slovenia and Austria.

Most of the 12 countries were in the Soviet sphere of influence after World War Two until 1989 and more than half of those joined the European Union in 2004, while Croatia joined in 2013. Nearly all are heavily reliant on Russian gas and oil imports and the Three Seas Initiative intends to usher in an independence from Russian energy supplies.

On the sidelines of the Summit of the Three Seas Initiative, Croatia’s President Grabar-Kitarovic held a bilateral meeting with the President of the United States of America Donald Trump with whom she discussed bilateral issues, the situation in South East Europe, energy and energy security, transatlantic relations, the fight against terrorism and uncontrolled migration and the future of the European Union after Brexit.

The President of Croatia told the US President Trump that Croatia appreciates the American position that the issue of the border between Croatia and Slovenia is a bilateral issue.

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic said Poland’s north-western Świnoujście LNG terminal and one planned on the island of Krk in Croatia would be connected in order to secure regional energy independence.

U.S. President Donald Trump talks to Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic as Romanian President Klaus Iohannis looks on during the Three Seas Initiative Summit in Warsaw, Poland July 6, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Grabar-Kitarovic said the two gas terminals would not be in competition, but that they would complement each other.

U.S. President Donald Trump, in a meeting with Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic in Warsaw, “expressed support for timely completion of the Krk Island liquefied natural gas facility” as the nation seeks to diversify its energy sector, the White House said in a statement on Thursday.

Trump also urged Grabar-Kitarovic “to do everything possible to advance regional reconciliation” in the western Balkans, the White House said.

The President of the Republic of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović moderated the Transatlantic session in Warsaw.

From the Croatian President’s website:
“US President Donald Trump emphasised that the Three Seas Initiative can help in constructing energy infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe, mentioning explicitly a floating terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) on the Croatian island of Krk. “I congratulate your states for having already commenced key projects that will remove obstacles and enable better access to energy markets and better energy connectivity. One of these projects is also a floating LNG terminal on the Croatian island of Krk,” said US President Trump speaking at the opening of the Summit in Warsaw, where the leaders of twelve Central and East European countries have met.

The Summit of the Three Seas Initiative in Warsaw, where President Trump is the guest of honor, is devoted to strengthening concrete trade, infrastructural, energy and political cooperation in the area between the Adriatic, Baltic and Black Sea. He called the Summit “historic,” emphasizing that this part of Europe has special significance for him. “As you know, my wife comes from Slovenia and she loves Slovenia,” said the US President.

He expressed that the United States’ support to this meeting and the Initiative can help in creating a sustainable and accessible energy market and can bring citizens prosperity. “Allow me to say on behalf of the American people that we stand behind the states of the Three Seas Initiative, we support you in your efforts to create greater prosperity, construct infrastructure and I welcome this historic chance for deepening economic partnership with your region,” he said.

Three Seas Initiative
2017 Transatlantic meeting in Warsaw
Photo: screenshot

The Three Seas Initiative is a joint Croatian-Polish project launched in the summer of 2016 at the meeting in Dubrovnik with the objective to strengthen trade, infrastructural, energy and political cooperation in the area between the Adriatic, Baltic and Black Seas.

The Initiative is designed as an informal platform for ensuring political support and action in concrete projects, and gathers twelve states – Croatia, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia and Austria. The Initiative is strongly supported by the United States and China.

President Grabar-Kitarovic said that in Europe, there is still a need to eliminate “artificial divisions in ‘old’ and ’new’, ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ Europe” even after the “iron curtain” was physically removed its remnants are still felt in a fragmented Central Europe.

“We are Central Europe and we want to be central to the European Union and transatlantic community, just as any other Euro-Atlantic country. We don’t want to be part of the periphery,” stated the President of Croatia.

She emphasized that the Three Seas Initiative “is an informal and flexible Presidential platform to exchange views and connect businesses and people through concrete projects and initiatives.”

She added that this is not “against” something but rather something “for”. “Our goal is to work on connecting our countries for the sake of the cohesion of Europe and the Euro-Atlantic community, because together we are stronger,” indicated President Grabar-Kitarovic.
Fare well – Three Seas Initiative. Ina Vukic

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